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“A Set of Six Self-Portraits” 1967
Andy Warhol
Working at the Factory, his New York studio, Andy Warhol was at the forefront of the Pop art movement. Pulling examples of the everyday and mundane and elevating them to the stature of “art” was an ironic, tongue-in-cheek send up of popular culture. He played with serial images of popular culture with themes like celebrity, catastrophes, and consumerism.
His self-portraits were explorations of his own image, both visually and as a player in the new cult of celebrity. Captured in his recognizable style of silk-screening with vivid, garish colors, his portraits are part homage, part rebellion, part comedy. Warhol’s most repeated quote from the 1960s, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” minimizes the power of fame while at the same time prophesizing our current culture of bloggers, reality TV, and ubiquitous paparazzi.
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